Whip a Perfect healthy breakfast this Saturday

Healthy Breakfast

Summer is here and hola!
A Little ice, some fruit, yogurt and juice welcome summer healthy eating plans by preparing a healthy snack that you and kids will enjoy.
Steps: Combine all the ingredients in a blender and whip until smooth.

Ideas: Strawberries, bananas, peach, blueberries are just but few examples.
Please check out other recipes in this category! Healthy drinks and smoothies

Ps. Mangosteen is in Season and I can't help Im eating kilos every day hellllpppp!

Healthy recipes: Looking for healthy recipes? look no more..

Healthy recipes for kids and the whole family

Bringing up a healthy family

Looking at good places to go for easy to follow family recipes and lots of valuable healthy eating advice plus quality tips for cooking better healthy meals. There is a lot of information out there that you can choose from start at goodtoknow, they have put together thousands of recipes for you to choose from.
When you think of recipes: a recipe for baking, a cake recipe or any other easy recipes starting from soup to chicken then you will want to check goodtoknow website.
But just before you go we have easy simple healthy Italian recipes in this blog that you can prepare from anywhere.

Mediterranean Diet: Fish, chicken, lots of vegetables, olive oil and fruits

Super foods for Super families

Super Vegetables
Asparagus,Avocados,Beets,Bell peppers,Broccoli,Brussels sprouts,Cabbage,Carrots,Cauliflower,Collard, greens,mushrooms,Cucumbers,Eggplant,Garlic,Green beans,Kale,Onions,Peas,mushrooms,Potatoes,lettuce,Shiitake mushrooms,Spinach,Sweet potatoes,Tomatoes,Turnip,Yams

Super foods for Super families

Having meals with the different super food groups means maximum body benefits for the family. What is Super food?
Super food is a term used for foods naturally rich in vitamins and minerals
Super food benefit your body in so many ways powering your brain and fuelling your body correctly. Super food fight infection, enhance your immune system, and protect you against diseases.

Super foods are healthy, affordable, well known, and readily available at the grocery stores and farmers markets. Given the Super food choices that we have it is still easy to feed your family with these Super food every day even in recession.

No one food is rich in everything. Need to eat a variety.

Carrot Benefits

I have been wanting to blog about benefits of eating carrots for some time since my husband started using lens few months ago. And he kept telling our son it is because he did not eat enough carrots when he was growing up. So, now my son want to eat more carrots for his eyesight.



Carrots have extremely major healthy benefits to our bodies. Carrots are the richest foods in Beta-Carotene which is the ingredient that gives it it's orange color. This may according to research reduce cancer risks in humans.
As you might know carrots can be eaten raw or cooked overcooking deprives them of nutrients. Best cooking method is steaming. But eating them in salad is best. I grew up eating carrots direct from my family garden and I miss that now.
You can store them (with soil) for quite some time, plus also you can conserve them by drying or bottles (preserves)
Some few ways of utilising carrots:

Carrot Juice with vegetables (can be bought from shops but why not make something fresh from your home?)
eg take 4 carrots and half cucumber wash them cut and process in the juicer.
or for apple and carrot juice, just take 1 apple and 3 carrots, wash, peel carrots, cut them and juice.
or even tomato/carrot, you take 3 carrots, 1 tomato and half stalk of celery, cut everything and juice everything.

Loosing weight fast: Golden rules

7 Golden rules for weight loss

1)Motivation: More motivation faster you loose weight
2)Protein and raw vegetable consumption- these 2 increase your metabolism and decrease appetite around 40% of your diet protein. Consume less carbohydrates. (moderate between carbs and proteins)
3)Eating habits before weight loss project
4)Stress means slow weight loss
5How much you eat does not mean that the little you eat the faster you loose weight
6)Active persons loose weight faster
7)People who are more overweight tend to loose weight faster- common sense takes more energy to move heavier person

This blog is very determined and working hard to find you all information that is going to help you shape your health bring happiness and save money. You know that the most sold info products on the web today revolves around weight loss and diets. I have personally taken this to myself to save you all that money buying ebooks after ebooks. All you can do to help this blog achieve that is by donating something today. Feel free to donate however much you feel like.
Thanking you in advance in helping bring all that information to readers who can and cannot afford to buy diets and related info.

How about loosing weight rapidly and easily

How to loose weight easily

Plan healthy meals
When I bake for example I reduce the sugars and butter the recipe requires
Reduce snacks like chocolates, icecreams etc
Check my soup recipes and make sure that you have atleast 2 portions a week
Drink water instead of fizzy drinks etc
Lucky to be in Bangkok there is always appetite for fruits as it is always very hot here (mangos, watermelon and pineapple)
share more after you read the above books

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Easy simple Italian recipe: Keeping food safe and clean

Oh help have got ants in my kitchen, learning to practice hygiene and food safety is the only way to keep animals from our kitchens and keep our selves safe from diseases. If you already have ants and cockroaches then sorry but you need some resources out there like the guide to killing red fire ants etc. These animals carry harmful bacteria that can spread throughout the kitchen and get onto cutting boards, utensils, and counter tops hence spreading diseases to you and family

How to prevent bacteria and disease.
Observe good personal hygiene before and during the preparation, serving or eating of food, avoid cross contamination between raw and cooked food for example the meat by storing them separately.
Others include keeping the kitchen clean and tidy at all times and encouraging the children to wash their hands before they eat or drink.

There are more to these the golden rules are keeping food in the right temperatures, cooking food properly, separating raw and cooked foods and keeping kitchen surroundings clean and dry and last washing hands and drying all times.
Remember too when cooking to observe cooking temperatures especially meats make sure you cook at 160° and above.

These are some ideas you can always find wealth of information in this topic from the internet. Do not say you were not told or did not know.

Cancer fighting food revealed

Red grapes and dark chocolate join blueberries, garlic, soy, and teas as ingredients that starve cancer while feeding bodies, Angiogenesis Foundation head William Li said at a prestigious TED Conference

Red wine and dark chocolate cancer killers

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Simple Nutrition for a Healthy body

Living a healthier longer life is a matter of informed choices of your diet and exercises.Most health related problems can be alleviated by taking into consideration a healthier lifestyle that come from first or all good nutrition, medical and self care.
How do I keep diseases away?
Best way to keep diseases away is by keeping active i.e exercising a lot whenever possible eg. swimming, walking, hikes, aerobics and all other kind of activities both indoors or outdoors.
The other would be to check on your diet, you can have a nutritionist help or if you do not have that you can find a whole choice of information on nutrition and healthy
high protein snacks online. The secret to being health is being informed by reading etc.
Medical checkups every now and then are also helpful in checking that you are in health.
Safety and food handling, keep off smoking and drugs.
As you can see disease prevention is not always in your control, but you can help your self by watching on the areas that you can control eg exercise, good nutrition, preventive health practices and personal safetythis will help you a lot.

Here is your golden rule for a good nutrition and better personal health.
- Drinking plenty of water everyday.
- Eating a varied diet -all food groups.
- Eating fruit and vegetables everyday.
- Getting enough sleep and also doing things that you enjoy

But avoid:
- Smoking
- Excessive drinking
- Drugs
- Stress

Dietary fiber: The importance of dietary fiber in our bodies

Let's see what wikipedia says about dietary fiber

Dietary fiber (fibre), sometimes called roughage, is the indigestible portion of plant foods that pushes food through the digestive system, absorbing water and easing defecation. It acts by changing the nature of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract, and by changing how other nutrients and chemicals are absorbed.[1]

Dietary fiber can be soluble (able to dissolve in water) or insoluble (not able to dissolve in water). Soluble fiber, like all fiber, cannot be digested. But it does change as it passes through the digestive tract, being transformed (fermented) by bacteria there. Soluble fiber also absorbs water to become a gelatinous substance that passes through the body. Insoluble fiber has bulking action but is mostly unchanged by fermentation as it passes through the body.[2]

Chemically, dietary fiber consists of non-starch polysaccharides such as cellulose and many other plant components such as dextrins, inulin, lignin, waxes, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans and oligosaccharides. The term "fiber" is somewhat of a misnomer, since many types of so-called dietary fiber are not fibers at all.

Food sources of dietary fiber are often divided according to whether they provide (predominantly) soluble or insoluble fiber. To be precise, both types of fiber are present in all plant foods, with varying degrees of each according to a plant’s characteristics.

Potential advantages of consuming fiber are the production of health-promoting compounds during the fermentation of soluble fiber, and insoluble fiber's ability (via its passive water-attracting properties) to increase bulk, soften stool and shorten transit time through the intestinal tract.

Vitamin D heart Benefits

If you have been able to look at an article from Newyork times on health you will find this helpful article of a study that has just been made public regarding the Vit D and what is its health benefits

Some few lines about Vit D
- vitamin D is associated with rickets and calcium metabolism
- Vitamin D through the skin from the sun
- build strong bones thats why Vit D added to milk
- vitamin D food sources include oily fish like salmon, mackerel, bluefish, catfish, sardines and tuna, as well as cod liver oil and fish oils

There are these 2 articles you should read to understand more of Vit. D

Vitamin D Shows Heart Benefits in Study

An Oldie Vies for Nutrient of the Decade

Fat fighting foods: Drop those extra kilos eating what you enjoy

How to fight fats!

There is nothing as frustrating as buying all those ebooks on slimming and diet products...how to loose weight in a month and then end up with something that simply does not work.

Today from yahoo you discover foods that do the work for you. These edibles have proven lipid-melting powers that help you slim. That’s a win.   By Veronica Byrd Almonds Almond joy! Dieters who ate 3 ounces of these nuts every day…

1)Almonds
2)Berries- full of Vit.C eg strawberries and raspberries.
3)Cinnamon
4)Mustard yellow
5)Oranges
6)Soybeans
7)Sweet potatoes
8)Swiss cheese

Talking of sweet potatoes my mom had planted them all over in our small piece of land and I hated when I came home from school after walking for 2 kilometers almost to find a whole pot of sweet potatoes for lunch. I wish I knew the more I learn about some simple food we had everyday the more I tell myself I wish I can go back and tell mom thanks!

Happy foods

From Yahoo news

Fight stress and depression with five nutrient-buffed snacks

Sorry, ice cream isn't on the list! But the following foods do have nutrients that can help fight stress and depression, says Elizabeth Somer, RD, author of Eat Your Way to Happiness.

Food: Oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits
Mood-Boosting Ingredient: Vitamin C
This vitamin helps you cope better in stressful times by lowering your levels of stress hormones. If you get a lot regularly, you'll feel calmer during tough situations.

Food: Nuts
Mood-Boosting Ingredients: Vitamin E, arginine (an amino acid) and magnesium
A handful of nuts will keep you full and satisfied because they have a low glycemic index-which means they don't jack up your blood sugar levels and cause mood swings. It also makes you feel good to eat something that seems decadent (they're considered a little bit naughty because they're high in fat) but actually has health benefits.

Food: Leafy greens
Mood-Boosting Ingredient: Folic Acid
Research has shown that the folic acid in leafy greens such as kale and spinach can reduce depression and even improve blood flow to the brain. If you're not eating at least one serving per day you're more than likely low in folic acid, so try getting more or consider taking a multivitamin that contains it.

Food: Salmon
Mood-Boosting Ingredient: DHA (an omega-3 fatty acid)
The omega-3s in fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel and sardines have been found to improve your mood while lowering the risk of depression and age-related memory loss. The depression link is so strong that American Psychiatric Association suggests that anyone taking antidepressants and/or going through therapy also boost her intake of omega 3s.

Food: Dried cherries
Mood-Boosting Ingredients: Potassium, magnesium and vitamin C
These nutrients all work to curb your body's stress response. Dried cherries also keep your brain healthy because they're packed with antioxidants (including vitamin C), which prevent damage to your brain cells that can lead to memory problems.

Soft drinks: Healthy or not healthy for you

What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body

I have been a cola addict for a long time but now no more as around 2 months ago I developed some problems and the first thing the doctor asked me to drop soft drinks.
For a month now I have had not more than 3 tins of cocacola the condition I had developed is gone and I am happy.

So today I came across this article about what soft drinks are doing to you and I quote the whole article here and I hope you take time to read:

Article source yahoo health news here

What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body
Ask Dr. Mao
By Dr. Maoshing Ni - Posted on Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 12:29 pm PDT
Dr. Mao's Secrets of Longevity
by Dr. Maoshing Ni a Yahoo! Health Expert for Alternative Medicine

Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an informed choice on your own.

Soft drinks are hard on your health
Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such as artificial coloring, flavoring, and preservatives.

A lot of research has found that consumption of soft drinks in high quantity, especially by children, is responsible for many health problems that include tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease.

Why the sugar in soft drinks isn’t so sweet
Most soft drinks contain a high amount of simple sugars. The USDA recommendation of sugar consumption for a 2,000-calorie diet is a daily allotment of 10 teaspoons of added sugars. Many soft drinks contain more than this amount!

Just why is too much sugar so unhealthy? Well, to start, let's talk about what happens to you as sugar enters your body. When you drink sodas that are packed with simple sugars, the pancreas is called upon to produce and release insulin, a hormone that empties the sugar in your blood stream into all the tissues and cells for usage. The result of overindulging in simple sugar is raised insulin levels. Raised blood insulin levels beyond the norm can lead to depression of the immune system, which in turn weakens your ability to fight disease.

Something else to consider is that most of the excess sugar ends up being stored as fat in your body, which results in weight gain and elevates risk for heart disease and cancer. One study found that when subjects were given refined sugar, their white blood cell count decreased significantly for several hours afterwards. Another study discovered that rats fed a high-sugar diet had a substantially elevated rate of breast cancer when compared to rats on a regular diet.

The health effects of diet soda
You may come to the conclusion that diet or sugar-free soda is a better choice. However, one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.

Diet soda is filled with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin. These artificial sweeteners pose a threat to your health. Saccharin, for instance, has been found to be carcinogenic, and studies have found that it produced bladder cancer in rats.

Aspartame, commonly known as nutrasweet, is a chemical that stimulates the brain to think the food is sweet. It breaks down into acpartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol at a temperature of 86 degrees. (Remember, your stomach is somewhere around 98 degrees.) An article put out by the University of Texas found that aspartame has been linked to obesity. The process of stimulating the brain causes more cravings for sweets and leads to carbohydrate loading.

Carbonation depletes calcium
Beverages with bubbles contain phosphoric acid, which can severely deplete the blood calcium levels; calcium is a key component of the bone matrix. With less concentration of calcium over a long time, it can lower deposition rates so that bone mass and density suffer. This means that drinking sodas and carbonated water increases your risk of osteoporosis.

Add in the caffeine usually present in soft drinks, and you are in for even more trouble. Caffeine can deplete the body’s calcium, in addition to stimulating your central nervous system and contributing to stress, a racing mind, and insomnia.

Skip the soda and go for:

• Fresh water
Water is a vital beverage for good health. Each and every cell needs water to perform its essential functions. Since studies show that tap water is filled with contaminants, antibiotics, and a number of other unhealthy substances, consider investing in a quality carbon-based filter for your tap water. To find out more about a high-performance filtration system, click here.

On the go? Try using a stainless steel thermos or glass bottle, filled with filtered water. Enhance the flavor of your water with a refreshing infusion of basil, mint leaves, and a drop of honey.

• Fruit Juice
If you are a juice drinker, try watering down your juice to cut back on the sugar content. Buy a jar of organic 100% juice, especially cranberry, acai, pomegranate, and then dilute three parts filtered water to one part juice. You will get a subtle sweet taste and the benefit of antioxidants. After a couple of weeks, you will no longer miss the sweetness of sugary concentrated juices.

• Tea
Tea gently lifts your energy and has numerous health benefits. Black, green, white, and oolong teas all contain antioxidant polyphenols. In fact, tea ranks as high or higher than many fruits and vegetables on the ORAC scale, the score that measures antioxidant potential of plant-based foods.

Herbal tea does not have the same antioxidant properties, though it is still a great beverage choice with other health benefits, such as inducing calming and relaxing effects.

If tea doesn’t satisfy your sweet tooth, try adding cinnamon or a little honey, which has important health benefits that refined sugar lacks. For a selection of healthy teas that promote total body wellness, click here. Drink up!

I hope you find the ways and means to avoid soft drinks. I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.

May you live long, live strong, and live happy!

--Dr. Mao

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Foods to help your skin: Natural beauty

Five Foods that can Make Your Facial Skin Care more effective and no need to spend money on creams and other beauty products that do not work

Water - water hydrates the body. Our body is mainly composed of water, our body cells need to be hydrated this helps the skin to look healthy. Do you drink at least eight glasses of water a day? If you don't then experts advice is start drinking more water today.
Also the washing of the face with water help freshen and cleans the pores

Salmon- rich in Omega-3 and Omega-6 and the fatty acids from the salmon are heart-friendly. This is also good in fighting fighting eczema, dry patches, help skin maintain a natural youthful glow. Remember the fatty acids as well as antioxidants are key in facial skin care.

Wheat Germ- packed vitamin B ,E, and Selenium. Vitamin B help cells in their process of regeneration and the ability to resist blemishes. Vitamin E and Selenium, helps fight premature aging. This also reduces risks of skin cancer and energizes your face skin.

Fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins A and C are natural antioxidants. Vitamin C helps in collagen production which improves colour and skin texture. Sweet potatoes and carrots are both rich in carotene inside the body turned into vit A which help reduce wrinkles.

Back to health: Tylenol recall 2009

The McNeil Consumer Healthcare (the makers of TYLENOL®) is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Children's and Infants' TYLENOL® liquid products that were manufactured between April, 2008 and June, 2008: Read on the recall here
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Man carries a Wendy's plastic spoon in his lungs for 2 good years

I was briefly looking at the news from abcnews.go.com and found this story of a Man who had carried a 1' plastic spoon for 2 years in his lungs and when removed the plastic spoon carries the logo of Wendy's.
Read about John Manley story at abcnews

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While you are there check out 3 nice recipes:

-Wolfgang Puck's Pan-Roasted Chicken With Lemon and Whole-Grain Mustard
-Wolfgang Puck's Bread Pudding With Berries
-Wolfgang Puck's Stacked Tomatoes and Mozzarella With Balsamic Reduction